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31. Gambling With Your Life

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Is Las Vegas a Suicide Magnet?

If you live in Las Vegas and are chronically exposed to suicide, you're about 60% more likely than residents elsewhere in the United States to die by suicide. For visitors coming to Las Vegas compared to people who are staying home, it's about 100% increase in suicide risk. And for the residents of Las Vegas who leave, they're what we kind of think of as kind of reduced exposure model or a hiatus model. You take a break from Vegas your risk goes down about 20%. So it really does, it really will help. We're talking about 25 or 30 people a year who are visitors to Las Vegas, who kill themselves there. But still that sounds like a small number,

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